Picture Books So Beautiful You Whisper ‘Wow’

• Berry Song by Michaela Goade
• Your Name Is a Song by Jamilah Thompkins-Bigelow and Luisa Uribe
• The Quiet Book by Deborah Underwood and Renata Liwska
• Your Mama by NoNieqa Ramos and Jacqueline Alcántara
• Swashby and the Sea by Beth Ferry and Juana Martinez-Neal
• Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts and Noah Z. Jones
• Have You Ever Seen a Flower? by Shawn Harris
• Soul Food Sunday by Winsome Bingham
• My Heart by Corinna Luyken
• The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld
• Julián Is a Mermaid by Jessica Love
• Rabbit and the Motorbike by Kate Hoefler and Sarah Jacoby

Picture Books That Stay With You

• Adrian Simcox Does NOT Have a Horse by Marcy Campbell and Corinna Luyken
• Nothing in Common by Kate Hoefler and Corinna Luyken
• Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
• Bear Came Along by Richard T. Morris and LeUyen Pham
• You Are Life by Bao Phi and Hannah Li
• I Am Quiet by Andie Powers and Betsy Petersen
• The Paper Kingdom by Helena Ku Rhee and Pascal Campion
• A Stone Sat Still by Brendan Wenzel
• Everything In Its Place by Pauline David-Sax and Charnelle Pinkney Barlow
• The Knowing by Ani DiFranco and Julia Mathew
• Outside In by Deborah Underwood and Cindy Derby

Picture Books With Some Seriously Lovable Characters

• Hamsters Make Terrible Roommates by Cheryl Klein and Abhi Alwar
• Something’s Wrong! A Hare, a Bear, and Some Underwear by Jory John and Erin Kraan
• My Best Friend by Julie Fogliano and Jillian Tamaki
• We Will Rock Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins
• Corduroy by Don Freeman
• Thank You, Omu! by Oge Mora
• Big Bright Feelings series by Tom Percival
• We Are Going to Be Pals by Mark Teague

Picture Books With Brilliant Concepts

• It Fell From the Sky by The Fan Brothers
• Poor Louie by Tony Fucile
• Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins
• Old Rock (Is Not Boring) by Deb Pilutti
• Not Quite Narwhal by Jessie Sima
• Hardly Haunted by Jessie Sima

Picture Books You Can’t Stop Laughing About

• My Parents Won’t Stop Talking by Emma Hunsinger and Tillie Walden
• Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty and David Roberts
• I Can Explain by Shinsuke Yoshitake
• Why by Adam Rex and Claire Keane
• The Big Bed by Bunmi Laditan and Tom Knight
• 17 Things I’m Not Allowed to Do Anymore by Jenny Offill and Nancy Carpenter 
• Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds and Peter Brown
• Make Way for Butterfly by Ross Burach

Picture Books With Voice for Days

• The World Belonged to Us by Jacqueline Woodson and Leo Espinosa
• Tough Like Mum by Lana Button and Carmen Mok
• A Big Mooncake for Little Star by Grace Lin
• Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold

Picture Books You Might Read Through Tears

• Stars of the Night by Caren Stelson and Selina Alko
• The Notebook Keeper by Stephen Briseño and Magdalena Mora
• Adrian Simcox Does NOT Have a Horse by Marcy Campbell and Corinna Luyken
• Lala’s Words by Gracey Zhang
• Milo Imagines the World by Matt de la Peña and Christian Robinson
• Watercress by Andrea Wang and Jason Chin
• Life by Cynthia Rylant and Brendan Wenzel 

Picture Books That Pull You In With Their Whimsy

• The Day the Horse Got Out by Audrey Helen Weber
• Beatrice Likes the Dark by April Genevieve Tucholke and Khoa Le
• In a Jar by Deborah Marcero
• The Library Fish by Alyssa Satin Capucilli and Gladys Jose

Picture Books Bubbling With Sweet Fun

• Off-Limits by Helen Yoon
• Dandy by Ame Dyckman and Charles Santoso

Picture Books That Do Things of Genius With Low Word Counts

• Mel Fell by Corey R. Tabor
• The Old Truck by Jerome Pumphrey and Jarrett Pumphrey

Picture Books I Once Gifted to People I Hadn’t Met Before

• The Night Gardener by The Fan Brothers